2,052 Responses to Wednesday Forum: October 31, 2018

Oh yea? This is how closely related Chinese are to each other for a large proportion of the population.

DNA Evidence Suggests 300 Million Chinese Men Are Descended From Just Three Stone Age Grandfathers
More than 40 per cent of the Chinese Han population can trace their family tree back to three ‘super-grandfathers’ who lived during the Neolithic era

Heard a good interview with an Australian woman on the BBC who had just completed a study of the electoral process in the US.

She talked about the important role of State governors and State assemblies because they get to set electoral boundaries. Some shenanigans occurring there. One electorate she mentioned has a Z shape, another, H. She pointed the finger at the Dems as offenders, countering known Republican areas by gerrymander.

She also mentioned that voter ID regulations now require voters to turn up with proof of a permanent residential address. PO Box nos. don’t cut it. She was outraged. Poor people, new arrivals, drifters, Indians on reservations who don’t have a normal postal address denied their rights. She seemed to want to blame Pence. Said he’d brought this in. All news to me.

Saying “slanty eyed” in these day and times is really puzzling. Why would Ross Cameron do that ?

I don’t see what is racist about that. It’s not like anyone sighted can’t tell the difference between an asian eye and a western eye.

I have been in tiananmen square during the national day celebration and was literally the only white person in a vast ocean of many 100s of thousands of black haired, slanty eye, yellow skinned people.

How is that racist? seems actually referring to the differences is racist. This is just attempting to control what people think by controlling what they can say. We have to pretend the differences simply don’t exist, like pretending males or females who identify with the opposite gender are what they identify as.

I saw and still maintain…. I saw the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen getting out of a Rolls at the entrance of a Shanghai hotel about a decade or so ago. She had black hair, a yellowish pigment…. etc. I haven’t change my mind on that one. Stop being a fusspot.

Life has been at a standstill across Pakistan as Islamist groups protest against a Supreme Court decision to free a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy.

Schools, offices and shops were closed and traffic was thin as protesters blocked highways and railway tracks in major cities on Friday, the third day of protests.

Pakistan suspended mobile phone networks in major cities, as it often does in the hopes of disrupting the organisation of protests.

The government’s efforts to negotiate with the leaders of Tehreek-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) – the Islamist group responsible for the protests – to defuse the situation ended in a stalemate overnight to Friday.

Three of the four entrances into the capital Islamabad were being controlled by the TLP and activists were preventing vehicles from passing through. They also burned cars and ransacked shops.

The protests broke out on Wednesday after a three-judge tribunal ordered the release of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who had been on death row since 2010.

There was no official word on the whereabouts of Bibi, but reports in local media suggested she might have been flown out of Pakistan due to safety concerns.

In a letter sent to the Prime Minister today, the Hollywood star and one-time Playboy Playmate congratulates Mr Morrison on his appointment and says they share something in common.

“Congratulations on your appointment as Prime Minister! Australia is one of my favourite places to visit. I read your maiden speech and was glad to see that we share the same strong principles of justice and compassion,” writes Anderson.

Anderson, an honorary director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals who famously posed nude to support various PETA campaigns, then calls on ScoMo to act on live animal exports.

“Today, I’m writing to ask that you put your compassion into action by ending the live-animal export industry.”

The US-Canadian starlet says a petition signed by 238,000 people calling for an end to the practise was recently sent to “your parliament”. Yet, she adds, a livestock export license has just been issued to a subsidiary of a company linked to the Emanuel Exports disaster (in which she claims more than 2400 sheep died in transit last year).

Journalists apply the “racist” tag without much thought. Ross Cameron used a racial stereotype in a Disneyland socio-cultural context. The comment wasn’t about race, but what seemed to him a cultural incongruity – normally the stuff of humour.
Naturally, it triggered a different Pavlovian response amongst the PC police.
Ross should have known better than to broadcast the comment.

Cameron’s sacking was a complete no-brainer. You can’t say what he said as a host on mainstream TV and expect to keep your job. Cameron is done – let him go. The more insidious phenomenon that is worth resisting is the ABC-led claim that ‘growing demands Rowan Dean also be sacked’ is a thing. That is straight-out bullshit.

Yeah nah IT, I am not sure anyone would survive your rules of behaviour to actually appear on the show.

All guests would have to wear a suit and tie iland behave like normal people. Sheilas would have to dress nice too. We would discuss normal middle class concerns in a pleasant and respectful manner. No lunacy would be allowed. Anyone lying would be punched in the genitals.

Also, If you can’t refrain from calling someone a gook for 30 mins, you’re out.

All guests would have to wear a suit and tie iland behave like normal people. Sheilas would have to dress nice too. We would discuss normal middle class concerns in a pleasant and respectful manner. No lunacy would be allowed. Anyone lying would be punched in the genitals.

They rewrite history to fill in IQ test results?!? No wonder Obama did so well. Wait, this whole thing is BS. Do I pass??

Yes it is BS. We have no idea on historical figures and those are just guesses. Gates IQ is based on his SAT results and his performance on various tasks. He taught himself how to code for IBM mainframe just by reading manuals, he was admitted to Harvard(no mean feat), and was a prodigious worker who in the initial years of MS checked all the code. Those who know him attest he is a very smart man. Gates himself though thinks intelligence is over rated and I have considerable sympathy with that. Perseverance and curiousity are very important so even a person in the superior range, up to 125, can produce brilliant work. I’ve had some friends who were brilliant on taking tests but in the real world they weren’t interested in being the smartest person in the room or doing endless degrees. One of those upon completing his honours was offered 3 Ph. D scholarships at leading universities(he didn’t even apply and joked with me how on his honours exams his hair was still wet because he had been skin diving just half an hour beforehand). They were happy. That’s important. As Nietzsche wrote: And learning better to feel joy we learn best not to hurt others or plan hurts for them.

The Pollie results don’t surprise me but I also don’t trust them because if you go through that much education and are that obsessive you are very highly motivated to maximise your potential intelligence; something which most of us never realise. It is possible to prepare for IQ tests and the examples you mention strike me as the type of people who are obsessive about high scoring. In neuropsych testing they refer to the “practice effect” and so do not allow regular testing on individuals because they become skilled at the particular tests. The Hitler thing strikes me as complete BS.

I didn’t say 300 is 90%. I said 300 million can trace their beginnings to three grandfathers. That doesn’t invalidate the subsequent comments.

Another reason why I don’t trust ancestral genetics. Look at that earlier post I put up. Originally it was argued by Wilson and many others that all humans descended from one small group. That has now been completely turned on its head.

Your Tiananmen Square story no doubt contains a kernel of truth, Zippy, as most lies do.

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I’m completely baffled why you would even think to have an issue with the fact I have been to china, or that I had a chinese gf at the time. Oh yes I remember, because I think that western civilisation is superior to chinese civilisation. Well all I can say about china is it’s a complete f*cking shithole.

Nice to be back in the third world, Airport Taxi rank operating with its usual weekend goat market like efficiency, Taxi pretty well rooted, Driver could drive and follow GPS for a change, no credit card facilities in Taxi’s, cash only, apparently something in Telstra has crapped itself.

Liberty Quote

The values of ordinary voters never were the social media values of Left environmentalism, feminist fundamentalism, asylum-seeker advocacy and anti-business hysteria. Voters may tolerate such enthusiasms, especially among the young, in times of prosperity, but in the low-wages growth post-GFC world they most of all want a ­better life for their children and their children’s children.